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by ztratar 7y ago
What do you think is a mistake Tesla is currently making? I may agree with you in part, but overall your tone is just so overwhelmingly positive it makes me curious where you have dissonance?
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by ztratar 7y ago
Not really sure where to start, but 1) CRISPR's altering doesn't necessarily only alter one gene, and 2) altering one gene doesn't necessarily alter "hundreds of other genes" either.
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Would you rather be COO of Github, or a VP at VMWare?
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And what do you think that will do tactically? It doesn't diminish the intrinsic geopolitical positions of both nation-states. Both countries, honestly, should be "fine" without the same levels of trade we've had in the
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Source for your claims? Intel, as far as I know, only let people go because they've been diminished due to ARM and Cisco with smartphone processors. What is this new CPU from China? China is quite publicly known to be years behind the
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Let's not forget that China has blocked access to its market for US Technology companies for the last 10 years. This is not China playing the same card. This is China playing aggressively, as they have been. It's a smart strategy,
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While this looks impressive, I think "programming a book" is still too tricky for authors. Repeating syntax and formatting books is hard, but authors struggle the most with writers block, creating stories, sourcing content for non
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My roommate was stabbed on 6th and Folsom at 8PM. He was in the hospital for quite some time. Another guy I know was shot 3 times when someone tried to rob him & he ran. He almost lost his ability to walk. It's a dangerous city.
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by ztratar 7y ago
I don't disagree, by the way. But can I ask? - Did you tell any legislators about your opinion? Did they listen to you, or do you just agree with their solution? - Have you seen any of this tech/tracking anywhere before? Ultimatel
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Resources are finite, as is time. Those are costs. I would disagree that "it doesn't detract from anything else they should be doing." Clearly they aren't solving the important problems. What has been done in the last mo
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by ztratar 7y ago
Exactly. When you can't get anything useful done, pass a law that's arbitrarily populist and pat yourself on the back.
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Were citizens having trouble with this in SF? I live in SF and have never seen police use facial recognition, nor have I seen anyone have a problem with it's use at a Governmental level. Could that happen? Sure. But SF Board of Supervi
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by ztratar 7y ago
Stripe has remotes across the world, but we're just formalizing this new "Hub" concept in North America.
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by ztratar 7y ago
Correct. I work at Stripe. By the way, this goes almost all-the-way-up. Even people who were former VPs at Google often have the title "Engineering Manager". Sure, they mostly manage other EMs, but it's hard to precisely tell
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by ztratar 7y ago
There are a lot of factors & regulations that make South America uniquely difficult. For example, regulations state that in Brazil the payment processors (like Stripe) cannot pay out funds until 30 days after they are earned. This obvio
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by ztratar 7y ago
Do you see any reported salaries? The numbers on Glassdoor for Basecamp are quite low when they claim top 10%.
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by ztratar 7y ago
So far looks like tools for companies & pro research, like their query builder. Will be interesting to see if it scales up...
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by ztratar 7y ago
If they offer API access I think it's fair to charge for it. At least for a certain scale. Hard to offer something for free if the server costs & maintainence are non-trivial.
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I'd like to see a breakdown of the benefits next to the costs. As it stands, the article you link here is a judgement seeking non-anecdotal data.
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I don't get anxiety, but these margins gave me anxiety.
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Dude, your brain is still in early developmental growth mode. Trust me: limit your intake of psychedelics until later in your life. There are studies all about this. There's no huge rush to do them besides feeling cool. Your life, but
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by ztratar 8y ago
Absolutely everything in business is an experiment. Experimenting with customers if what gives you the information to make a better product. It's the least user hostile thing you can get.
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Read the article. See where she says "we're default alive" in an email to her company? That means they were profitable back in 2016. I assume now with extra capital that might not be the case, but that's the re-invest in
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by ztratar 8y ago
Maybe I'm missing something... I see the chat bubble in the bottom right. Pretty standard nowadays. Nothing uniquely bad about it here. And that's all that's jumping at me? The rest is the normal website. What else is annoyin
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by ztratar 8y ago
Linke? Stripe has a policy for not de-platforming due to political reasons.
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by ztratar 8y ago
Automated browser testing via repl would be awesome... and a pretty sizable biz model choice
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by ztratar 8y ago
I'm a Stripe employee & would like to know more about your POV here. What other processors pay you for referring your customers, and whom are your customers? Very curious. Since processing is a low-margin business, it's really
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by ztratar 8y ago
As a former founder who now works at Stripe... I am glad to see we are now explicitly mentioning the aspects of Stripe culture that make it founder friendly. - Huge transparency - Management optimizes for autonomy & distributed decision
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3M is not even close to enough for retirement in Silicon Valley. Also... 1.6M after taxes.
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And if Amazon is broken up, whoever thinks the US will still win the global E-commerce market against Alibaba is also quite high. The rules are changing. We need to think about the geopolitics here as well. We need US companies to win globa

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